Washing-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

C. L. INGRAHAM AND E. ROUNDS, OF BERLIN, WISCONSIN.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 28,180, dated Mayv 8, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, C. L. INGRAHAM and EMoRY RoUNns, of Berlin, in the county of Green Lake and State of ViseOnsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VvTashing-Machines; and We do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of our invention consists in the employment of a pump in connection with a Washing box in Which is placed an open Wheel substantially as set forth.

In the annexed drawings Figure l represents a side elevation Fig. 2 is a plan View Fig. 3 is a section through the pump Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the cylinder.

In the figures A, represents a Wash box Which may be constructed of any desired size, and in any known Way. The shape which We prefer is square, with a concave bottom. Vithin this box is placed a cylinder which may be hexagonal, or octagon, or any other desired. This cylinder has tivo solid heads, Which are annular. Bars extend from one of these heads to the other, and slats are nailed to the bars, thus making an open cylinder Which vvill hold clothes but through Which Water may course backward and forward. Across one side of this box is secured a small Water reservoir L, Which connects With a pump, P, which is also placed in the box. Water is pumped into this reservoir, from Which it is forced through openings in its side into the cylinder B.

D, is a gear Wheel to which a handle is attached. Said Wheel works into a wheel E, which revolves the cylinder B, and said Wheel E, Works into a Wheel F, to Which is attached a crank. A connecting bar H attaches or connects the crank G to the lever I, which serves to communicate motion to the pump rod J. Then the handle of Wheel D, is turned rotary motion is given to the cylinder B, in Which the clothes are pla-ced; motion is at the same time communicated to the pump rod. The pump draws Water from the box A, and drives it into the reservoir, from which it is expelled by the force of the pump, in small streams, through the slats on the cylinder B, and against the clothes in said cylinder, thus Washing the dirt from them as they revolve.

M, M, are bars placed across the cylinder to retard the motion of the clothes and to assist in turning them over.

Having thus fully described our inven tion what We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is Not the pump or the Wheel, separately, but the combination of the pump as arranged With the wheel or cylinder which has a slatted or open periphery, the two being so arranged and connected that'the Water Will be raised from the box by the pump and injected, upon and among the clothes through the open periphery of the cylinder as it revolves, substantially as herein specified.

c. L. INGRAELAM. EMoRY RoUNDs.

Witnesses LEVI SArPERo, CHAUNGY VEDDER. 

